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Disruption. Digital getting killed is what prompted Christensen to write The Innovator's Dilemma.


IANAP but any philosophy based on absence is a nihilism


dreams are false data


*synthetic training data


exactly!


prefer semantic abstraction even when it creates duplication


This beaurcratic development feels like turning a super-tanker that's connected to a hundred other super-tankers. While I accept the priority of back-compatibility, I personally lack the working memory to manage it, while creative problem-solving.


The non-nullability issue seems to be about performance, not cognitive load (search the article for "writes atomically"), though not articulated.


Bloom's 2 sigma problem solved at last! But that's overestimating LLMs, our zeitgeist.

AI can't detect AI, not because AI undetectable, but because it lacks judgment. Its shtick is random generation; the proverbial monkey on a typewriter.


Fewer features = smaller frame, easier to satisfy, better customer targeting.


Why not replenish with solar i.e. pump it back up into a dam-battery?


What does clocks mean here? A new usage?

    “Emacsification” clocks that everything now works this way, not just baroque text editors.


It's not a new usage by any means. Like almost all slang it originated with Black drag and LGBT+ subcultures and only semi-recently (within the last 10-15 years maybe?) broke containment in the US.

As a verb, "to clock" means something like "to notice" or maybe in this case "to highlight, with specificity".


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